asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: solvency-verifier << when i was a little boy, me brother said 'i shall build you a computer.' (he had one, a rarity, i was envious and annoying)
asciilifeform: one of you told me that the fellow behind 'vault' (argentinian?) has actual brain. so does he keep it in a case, buried in the garden with kalash? or use it for other ventures? because 'vault' doesn't reveal evidence of its use.
asciilifeform: right, we can all write this kind of 'vault'
asciilifeform: washington airport muppetron: 'sir, anything to declare?' me: well, just this...
asciilifeform: '...a detection unit contains three concealed cartridges, each of which houses eight mice. During their 4-hour shifts in the detector, the mice mill about in a common area in each cartridge as air is passed over people paused in the archway and through the cartridge...'
asciilifeform: phun phact: as a student, i once seriously planned to build a pocket gas chromatographer, to pick up gurlz. how!? to do this - exercise for alert reader.☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: spectrometer << the one fellow who did get a little thorough arsework in the queue at Dulles with me, did in fact pack one!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sends daughter to water the pole (ie, pour a bucket of water at base on old wooden pole, no cables there or anything) << engineers call this 'Kansas phone problem' :
asciilifeform: ;;rate ThickAsThieves 3 live human, ate synthetic food, jolly good fella
asciilifeform: ;;rate mike_c 3 live human, cellular automata, jolly good fellow
asciilifeform: (container pictured in bottom left of last photograph)
asciilifeform: also, turns out the plastic-and-pluckfoam case thing is a good idea. everything else in my baggage got spindled, save for the contents of the Evil Attache.
asciilifeform: cgcardona_: mr. p throws one hell of a party.
asciilifeform: everyone here should recognize at least one or two of these.
asciilifeform: davout: the customs at all with all the gear he was carrying << not one guard gave so much as a rat's arse! colour me equally surprised.
asciilifeform: dexX7: regular queue! no one bothered to actually search, arse or suitcase, on egress
asciilifeform: takes almost as long to get out of washington's airport as to do a great circle loop across atlantic.
asciilifeform: some of it, to be fair, spend puttering around in munchen
asciilifeform: meet today's enterprise demands << only ROT-13 can possibly meet demands!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: weev article << 'TRO LLC (yes, the troll corporation), based in generating actionable financial intelligence from the computer underground. The primary strategy will be short equities' << poor sod, sits in usa, waits for nailgun.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pgp article << what kind of dope do i need to smoke for this one to make sense ??
asciilifeform: individual. but some accountants provide a kind of 'insurance'
asciilifeform: next news: 'rumsfeld fined, estate auctioned, for inaccurate tax filings'
asciilifeform: is there a vast legion of spammers, crying to get on the list?
asciilifeform: complicated, to say 'book is dead.' books of horoscopes and dream divinations still printed by the zillion, 'soviet encyclopaedia of physics' - not.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: kamkin lived by the 'sovietologists' of washington, and - died by them.
